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Unlock the more straightforward side of Death Is My Trade with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Death is My Trade by Robert Merle, a brilliant novel in which the author, inspired by his own experience of imprisonment in Germany and the accounts of the Nuremberg trials, chooses to look at the horror of the death camps from the perspective of an S.S. officer. An intriguing psychological...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Delicacy with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Delicacy by David Foenkinos, the moving and beautifully written story of a young woman who battles through her grief and learns that it is possible to move on, and that external appearances are not always the most important thing. The work has received no fewer than ten prestigious literary awards...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Dirty Hands with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre, a seven-act play which revolves around Hugo, a man charged with the task of assassinating the leader of the communist party who wants to adopt controversial policies. But Hugo soon realizes that assassination is no mean feat and struggles to see his mission through....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, an autobiographical account of his life with locked-in syndrome following a massive stroke at the age of just 43. His entire body is paralyzed apart from his left eyelid, but he miraculously learns how to express himself...
85) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Don Quixote with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantès, a novel in which an old hidalgo loses his mind from reading too many chivalric romances. Believing himself to be a knight of old, and transforming everything he sees according to his fancy, he embarks on hilarious adventures with a simple-minded peasant called...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Dracula with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Dracula by Bram Stoker, which tells the nail-biting story of a blood-thirsty vampire as he hunts for victims, and the desperate attempts of a group of friends to stop him in his tracks. Credited with creating many of the now integral characteristics of a vampire, such as a fear of garlic and lack of...
87) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Eat, Pray, Love with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, an autobiographical account of the year-long journey undertaken by the author following her painful divorce. In her travels across Italy, India and Indonesia, she overcomes her loneliness and depression, learns how to take pleasure in food, and practices...
88) Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Empire of the Ants with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber, a fascinating novel in which disappearances in the world of the ants as well as in the world of the humans prompt the protagonists from both species to embark on adventures that will bring them closer. The novel was so popular that it has been translated...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Endgame with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Endgame by Samuel Beckett, an avant-garde play in which four characters are alone in a shelter, in the middle of a post-apocalyptical world, and impatiently await the end. Their bodies undergo a slow degradation and their boredom can only end with their deaths. Beckett wrote the play in French and then...
90) Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Eugénie Grandet with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, a novel about a young woman's life in the provinces. Eugénie lives as a virtual prisoner in the house of her father, a wealthy man and noted miser, and is thoughtlessly betrayed by her first love Charles before finally finding independence and peace as...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Existentialism and Humanism with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre, a text which focuses on the philosopher's idea of existentialism in a more accessible and simplified manner than ever before. By directly addressing the main criticisms levelled against his work, Sartre dispels many of the misconceptions...
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In this clear and detailed reading guide, we've done all the hard work for you!
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre is a philosophical essay resulting from the transcription of one of his lectures, in which he simplifies his philosophical doctrine to make it available to a broader audience, and in which he defends his philosophy from the criticisms that were voiced about it.
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Fall with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Fall by Albert Camus, which tells the story of a French defence lawyer who, disgusted with the vanity, cowardice and selfishness of his life in Paris, goes to Amsterdam to serve as a "judge-penitent". Following on from the author's earlier novels The Stranger and The Plague, The Fall explores and...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Fault Lines with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Fault Lines by Nancy Huston, a fascinating story of childhood in a family spanning four generations, as the reader gradually traces their origins and eventually finds the starting point of the "fault lines" that have torn apart their family and culminate in Sol, their youngest and most violent member....
95) Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Fear and Trembling with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb, an award-winning novel discussing otherness, culture clash and integration with delicate humor and refreshing honesty. It tells the story of a young Belgian woman who moves to Japan and tries to fit into a big Japanese company, but miserably fails to...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The First Man with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The First Man by Albert Camus, which tells the true story of the father he never knew and his search to discover what sort of man he had been, in order to find himself. The incomplete manuscript was found in the mud following Camus's fatal car crash in 1960, and was later published by his daughter....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Frankenstein with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a horror novel that calls into question the origin of evil and the dangers and limits of science. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein and his quest to solve the mystery of life which culminates in the creation of a monster. Frankenstein is known around the world,...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Friedrich with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter, the heart-breaking story of two young boys growing up in Nazi Germany who, despite their similar upbringing and close friendship, are torn apart by anti-Semitism and the horrors of World War II. The novel won the prestigious American Batchelder Award in 1972, a prize...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of A Game of Thrones with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, which introduces readers to the powerful families at war for the Iron Throne in the A Song of Ice and Fire saga. The book depicts a richly detailed medieval world, and interweaves a number of connected storylines involving dragons, warriors, betrayal,...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Girl with a Pearl Earring with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, a fascinating novel set in 17th century Delft, in which the fictitious story of one of Vermeer's masterpieces is told. Griet, a young maid, narrates the story of her ambiguous relationship with the painter. The romantic and scandalous novel...
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